[Leaning Right]

> She was stumped. <

I will defend the clerk in that instance. I taught for many years in public schools. The latest fad is calculator work only. Teachers in my district are actually forbidden to teach things like estimation, the times tables, etc.

The math teachers hate this.

Anyway, we now have a generation of kids who can punch buttons, but cannot do simple math in their heads. It’s not their fault. It’s the fault of the idiot math supervisors, and the school boards who hire them.

[Deaf Smith]

I frequently when paying with cash, give bills & coins together to round off to where I will get quarters back while reducing the smaller coins I have.

Kids up to those in their late 20's say I gave them too much.

I tell them it is magic; tender in what I gave them and I will get two quarter back.

They are flabbergasted that my change back is $0.50.

*How did you do that?

Me: I did go to school.